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While attending Computex in Taiwan this past June, The SSD Review had the opportunity to meet with Exascend CEO and Founder Frank Chen, who provided valuable insight into the company’s background and philosophy. Exascend is a NAND flash storage specialty manufacturer with a product portfolio that spans memory cards, DRAM, embedded storage solutions, and enterprise-class SSDs. From the very beginning, …

Random write performance in an enterprise SSD is critical as workloads rely heavily on processing thousands of small, scattered, and simultaneous data requests per second.  These are measured in IOPS. Unlike sequential workloads, random writes do not write data in a contiguous line, making them much harder for the SSD to handle.  SQL, Oracle and virtual machine hosts constantly write …

I just can’t wrap my head around why KIOXIA hasn’t brought its consumer SSDs to North America. And, in the same vein, I still don’t fully understand why Micron retired the much-loved Crucial brand. That said, I’m convinced KIOXIA-branded SSDs would do extremely well here, potentially rivaling those top-tier bestsellers we all know. In the meantime, our small team is …

Our look at the KIOXIA CD9P-R Gen5 Data Center SSD marks a first for The SSD Review, and it’s a bit of a nostalgic one. Our connection with the KIOXIA team stretches back many years, all the way to the early OCZ Revo and Vertex days. That lineage later became Toshiba, and eventually KIOXIA around 2018–2019. Since shifting our focus …

I’ve always felt there’s a gap in the flash storage industry. We do a great job serving consumer and client segments, and then suddenly jump straight to server and data center solutions. Media professionals are often lumped in with enthusiast-level consumer storage and it feels like there is a segment missing in flash storage.  When was the last time you …

High density, high performance, and reliability are three of the most critical factors in achieving data center excellence, and Solidigm may have delivered on all three. For years, the industry has pursued improved rack designs, with power efficiency and cooling at the center of that effort. While the Solidigm D7-PS1010 series has been available for some time, its newest E1.S …

When we think about data centers or any other large-scale, network-integral computing systems, we often focus on enterprise SSDs… and perhaps rightly so. Personally, I believe there is no other historical technological advance that truly compares to flash storage. We tend to overlook just how much we take for granted in the rapid evolution from hard drives to solid-state storage, …

Today’s review covers the Phison Pascari X200Z Gen5 SSDs in both 800GB and 1.6TB capacities.  We have two in our hot little hands in fact! Now, if you’ve been around long enough, that “Z” in the name might spark a bit of nostalgia. Yes, we’re talking about SLC flash. Credit where credit’s due: Samsung helped popularize the term. But for …

A short time ago we did a review of the MemBlaze Pblaze7 7A40 Gen5 Enterprise SSD and this SSD contained  T-Head Zhenyue 510 (also known as TH7700) 16-channel Gen5 SSD controller, along with 8-pieces of YMTC Xtacking 3.0 (X3-9070) 232-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory capable of running at up to 2400MT/s.  That SSD was a one drive write per …

Dapustor is a little known SSD manufacturing company that is based in China, was founded in 2016 and has a present workforce of over 400 members throughout the country.  It’s forte is high-end enterprise solid-state drives, SOC, and edge computing-related products and it presently holds in excess of 156 patents, which is to say they aren’t just another SSD component …